blekko charging

[Gurtie]

well thats a pain in the bum, it was very handy for the odd quick query.

I really can't see its $99 a month worth though. Have they added anything to justify that rate of charge, does anyone know?

[Zwart]

Maybe it's free if you work for them?

I'm almost sure it will work for them tho: they must have studied the "clientele" before they made this move. I bet regular searchers made up less than 0.1% of their traffic heh.

[ergophobe]

What's their burn rate? If you're only spending $50,000/month, then you only need 5500 subscribers before someone is earning money.

Of course, I played their Three Search Engine Monte for a while and I ended up choosing Blekko zero times, Bing once and Google ten times or so. So their core strength would not seem to be search for regular users.